Prototype Underground Demonstration Mine in Oil Shale Deposits

Details

• Personal Author:
  Hoe HL ; Raymond HD ; Skelly WA
• Description:
  This report contains a summary of designs, specifications, costs, and schedules developed for a prototype oil-shale demonstration mining program to be undertaken at the Horse Draw site in the Piceance Creek Basin, Rio Blanco County, Colorado. The objective of the program is to assess the feasibility of extracting oil shale and associated saline minerals from deep rich oil shale zones that occur within the central portion of the basin. Four mining systems were specified for demonstration including chamber and pillar mining with backfill, sublevel stoping with backfill, sublevel stoping with full subsidence, and block caving. Commercial-scale designs for each system were modified and scaled down as required to achieve program objectives. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Subseries:
  Open File Report
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Conference Publications ; Final Contract Report
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; OSHA Region 8
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DRC - Denver Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-227
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10001906
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-297605
• Citation:
  NTIS: PB 297-605; :1-227
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1979
• Performing Organization:
  Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  NTIS: PB 297-605
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:81f89b5c43620b6e13abd4605832a4013ad0d73c47d12c082fc3e35e81a30400d86e945830d17f3440e2fc9b30839c61e81fddbc85bb3afdd16d9ac49b287339
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/206565/cdc_206565_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 6.50 MB ]